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2011
Leonardi, Chiara; Sabatucci, Luca; Susi, Angelo; Zancanaro, Massimo
Design as Intercultural Dialogue: Coupling Human-Centered Design with Requirement Engineering Methods Proceedings Article
In: Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2011: 13th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, September 5-9, 2011, Proceedings, Part III 13, pp. 485–502, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: AAL for the Elderly, Design Process, Requirement Engineering, User-Centred Design
@inproceedings{leonardiDesignInterculturalDialogue2011,
title = {Design as Intercultural Dialogue: Coupling Human-Centered Design with Requirement Engineering Methods},
author = { Chiara Leonardi and Luca Sabatucci and Angelo Susi and Massimo Zancanaro},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-23765-2_34},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
booktitle = {Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2011: 13th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, September 5-9, 2011, Proceedings, Part III 13},
pages = {485--502},
publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
abstract = {In the design of information technologies, the challenge of integrating a human-centered design approach with software engineering methods emerge in different forms. The main challenge is to set the ground for different disciplines and professional cultures communicate and work together. The orchestration of different contributions and the establishment of communication practices that facilitates the integration of the different languages and procedures are crucial steps to take full advantage of different research traditions. This paper presents a case study in which human-centered design and requirement engineering methodologies have been used within a large research projects aiming at developing innovative technologies and services to support professionals in nursing homes. The design process took the form of an intercultural dialogue that required human-centered and requirement-engineering professionals to work across borders. Starting from our case study, the paper presents the boundaries identified between the human-centered and the engineering perspective and proposes a framework to guide the integration process conceived as an intercultural dialogue between disciplines.},
keywords = {AAL for the Elderly, Design Process, Requirement Engineering, User-Centred Design},
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In the design of information technologies, the challenge of integrating a human-centered design approach with software engineering methods emerge in different forms. The main challenge is to set the ground for different disciplines and professional cultures communicate and work together. The orchestration of different contributions and the establishment of communication practices that facilitates the integration of the different languages and procedures are crucial steps to take full advantage of different research traditions. This paper presents a case study in which human-centered design and requirement engineering methodologies have been used within a large research projects aiming at developing innovative technologies and services to support professionals in nursing homes. The design process took the form of an intercultural dialogue that required human-centered and requirement-engineering professionals to work across borders. Starting from our case study, the paper presents the boundaries identified between the human-centered and the engineering perspective and proposes a framework to guide the integration process conceived as an intercultural dialogue between disciplines.
Perini, Anna; Qureshi, Nauman A.; Sabatucci, Luca; Siena, Alberto; Susi, Angelo
Evolving Requirements in Socio-Technical Systems: Concepts and Practice Proceedings Article
In: Conceptual Modeling–ER 2011: 30th International Conference, ER 2011, Brussels, Belgium, October 31-November 3, 2011. Proceedings 30, pp. 440–447, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: AAL for the Elderly, Continuous change, Law Compliance, Requirement Engineering, User-Centred Design
@inproceedings{periniEvolvingRequirementsSociotechnical2011,
title = {Evolving Requirements in Socio-Technical Systems: Concepts and Practice},
author = { Anna Perini and Nauman A. Qureshi and Luca Sabatucci and Alberto Siena and Angelo Susi},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-24606-7_34},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
booktitle = {Conceptual Modeling–ER 2011: 30th International Conference, ER 2011, Brussels, Belgium, October 31-November 3, 2011. Proceedings 30},
pages = {440--447},
publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
abstract = {Changes in requirements are inevitable in the context of socio-technical systems (STS) that involve human organizations with their rules, as well as individuals and software systems. In these complex systems need for changes may emerge once software components come into operation, due to undesirable behavior of the STS, or due to variations in organization rules, laws, resources and STS's components themselves. This leads to a problem of continuous analysis of evolving requirements in a traceable way. Our work is motivated by experience in a real project in the health-care domain, and in analysis practices based on participatory design methods (scenarios and personas) and on techniques for law-compliant requirements analysis. We revisit this experience and generalize it into a novel framework that provides concepts and practices to support an evolutionary and "participatory" process for requirements evolution in STS.},
keywords = {AAL for the Elderly, Continuous change, Law Compliance, Requirement Engineering, User-Centred Design},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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Changes in requirements are inevitable in the context of socio-technical systems (STS) that involve human organizations with their rules, as well as individuals and software systems. In these complex systems need for changes may emerge once software components come into operation, due to undesirable behavior of the STS, or due to variations in organization rules, laws, resources and STS's components themselves. This leads to a problem of continuous analysis of evolving requirements in a traceable way. Our work is motivated by experience in a real project in the health-care domain, and in analysis practices based on participatory design methods (scenarios and personas) and on techniques for law-compliant requirements analysis. We revisit this experience and generalize it into a novel framework that provides concepts and practices to support an evolutionary and "participatory" process for requirements evolution in STS.
Sabatucci, Luca; Leonardi, Chiara; Susi, Angelo; Zancanaro, Massimo
Issues and Challenges in Coupling Tropos with User-Centred Design. Proceedings Article
In: iStar, pp. 120–125, 2011.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: AAL for the Elderly, Design Process, Goal-Oriented Approach, Requirement Engineering, User-Centred Design
@inproceedings{sabatucciIssuesChallengesCoupling2011,
title = {Issues and Challenges in Coupling Tropos with User-Centred Design.},
author = { Luca Sabatucci and Chiara Leonardi and Angelo Susi and Massimo Zancanaro},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
booktitle = {iStar},
pages = {120--125},
abstract = {Goal-oriented requirements engineering aims at eliciting, elab- orating, structuring, specifying, analyzing and documenting functional and non-functional requirements. This activity must include the involve- ment of final users of the system across the whole process to reduce the risk of misunderstanding the domain, missing important details and to in- crease the final value of the product. User-Centred Design is an approach that focuses on the continuous communication between requirements en- gineers and stakeholders, thus distributing responsibilities of the decision process about the requirements. In this paper we explore the issues and challenges of coupling User- Centred Design and Goal-Oriented methods as we experienced in a real project aiming at developing smart environment for nursing home to support medical and assistance staff.},
keywords = {AAL for the Elderly, Design Process, Goal-Oriented Approach, Requirement Engineering, User-Centred Design},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Goal-oriented requirements engineering aims at eliciting, elab- orating, structuring, specifying, analyzing and documenting functional and non-functional requirements. This activity must include the involve- ment of final users of the system across the whole process to reduce the risk of misunderstanding the domain, missing important details and to in- crease the final value of the product. User-Centred Design is an approach that focuses on the continuous communication between requirements en- gineers and stakeholders, thus distributing responsibilities of the decision process about the requirements. In this paper we explore the issues and challenges of coupling User- Centred Design and Goal-Oriented methods as we experienced in a real project aiming at developing smart environment for nursing home to support medical and assistance staff.
2010
Leonardi, Chiara; Sabatucci, Luca; Susi, Angelo; Zancanaro, Massimo
Ahab's Leg: Exploring the Issues of Communicating Semi-Formal Requirements to the Final Users Proceedings Article
In: Advanced Information Systems Engineering: 22nd International Conference, CAiSE 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 7-9, 2010. Proceedings 22, pp. 455–469, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Goal-Oriented Approach, Requirement Engineering, Requirement Validation, User-Centred Design
@inproceedings{leonardiAhabLegExploring2010,
title = {Ahab's Leg: Exploring the Issues of Communicating Semi-Formal Requirements to the Final Users},
author = { Chiara Leonardi and Luca Sabatucci and Angelo Susi and Massimo Zancanaro},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-13094-6_35},
year = {2010},
date = {2010-01-01},
booktitle = {Advanced Information Systems Engineering: 22nd International Conference, CAiSE 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 7-9, 2010. Proceedings 22},
pages = {455--469},
publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
abstract = {In this paper, we present our experience in using narrative scenarios as a tool to communicate and validate semi-formal requirements with the stake-holders in a large software project. The process of translating the semi-formal language of Tropos into the narrative form of scenarios is introduced and some unintended implications of this process are discussed. In particular, we define the notion of Ahab's leg to describe the necessity to introduce new constraints or features in a description when moving to a different representational language. Starting from the lessons learned with this specific case study, we derive some general implications concerning the issue of requirement translation for validation tasks and we propose some methodological guidelines to address the Ahab's leg dilemma.},
keywords = {Goal-Oriented Approach, Requirement Engineering, Requirement Validation, User-Centred Design},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
In this paper, we present our experience in using narrative scenarios as a tool to communicate and validate semi-formal requirements with the stake-holders in a large software project. The process of translating the semi-formal language of Tropos into the narrative form of scenarios is introduced and some unintended implications of this process are discussed. In particular, we define the notion of Ahab's leg to describe the necessity to introduce new constraints or features in a description when moving to a different representational language. Starting from the lessons learned with this specific case study, we derive some general implications concerning the issue of requirement translation for validation tasks and we propose some methodological guidelines to address the Ahab's leg dilemma.
Leonardi, Chiara; Sabatucci, Luca; Susi, Angelo; Zancanaro, Massimo
Exploring the Boundaries: When Method Fragmentation Is Not Convenient. Proceedings Article
In: MALLOW, 2010.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: AAL for the Elderly, Design Process, Smart Environment, User-Centred Design
@inproceedings{leonardiExploringBoundariesWhen2010,
title = {Exploring the Boundaries: When Method Fragmentation Is Not Convenient.},
author = { Chiara Leonardi and Luca Sabatucci and Angelo Susi and Massimo Zancanaro},
year = {2010},
date = {2010-01-01},
booktitle = {MALLOW},
abstract = {This paper presents an approach to explore the coupling of User-Centred Design and Tropos methodologies. The two methodologies have been employed in a real project aiming at developing smart environment for nursing home to support medical and assistance staff. In particular Tropos has been used for modeling (and reason about) the domain and the system, whereas User-Centred Design has been useful for establishing an interface for communicating with stakeholders. The integration was challenging due to the epistemological differences between the two design approaches.},
keywords = {AAL for the Elderly, Design Process, Smart Environment, User-Centred Design},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
This paper presents an approach to explore the coupling of User-Centred Design and Tropos methodologies. The two methodologies have been employed in a real project aiming at developing smart environment for nursing home to support medical and assistance staff. In particular Tropos has been used for modeling (and reason about) the domain and the system, whereas User-Centred Design has been useful for establishing an interface for communicating with stakeholders. The integration was challenging due to the epistemological differences between the two design approaches.